hereditary

Meanings

Adjective

• Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
• Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
• Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
• Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes
• Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.

Noun

• A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

Related

Similar words

• inhereditary

Opposite words

• nonhereditary

Origin

• From Latin hereditarius, from hereditas 'inheritance', from heres 'heir'